It's well written, melodramatic but enjoyable, and really difficult to puzzle out. The story also includes brief, dream-like snippets of the life of her 16th century ancestor and his own lover, the 'gypsy' who brought their psychic trait into the family line. Her search for the truth about her family legacy draws in all the previously mentioned characters, as well as the American family renting Ashley Court (Bryony lives in an estate cottage). He was a lovely character, reminding me strongly of another Rob, the one in Susanna Kearsley's recent The Firebird.īryony must figure out what her father's last message to her means, and this involves their family motto - Touch Not The Cat - as well as the rather neglected maze and garden house at its centre, at Ashley Court. There's also Rob, a childhood friend, still living nearby with his mother. She has identical twin cousins, James and Emory, who are quite a pair, and their younger brother Francis who is conveniently out of the way on a hiking trip for much of the book. Bryony assumes that her lover is one of her cousins (ick) because this telepathy thing has been passed down through the generations. The concept and the terminology is a bit hokey, but the romance is still pretty well done.
She also wants to find out who her mysterious "lover" is, the one she's been telepathically linked to since childhood.
Her father has died in Europe in a suspicious car accident, and so Bryony returns home to England to sort things out and resolve her grief. This was written in the 70's and has telepathy as a main plot point: Bryony Ashley is the daughter of a family who has lived at Ashley Court since the 1600s. and inescapable peril.This was just sitting on my shelf, unnoticed and unread until my husband asked, hey, have you read this one? How could I have neglected a Mary Stewart novel for so long, especially one with a maze in it? Well, that is now remedied. But passion is not all that will greet Bryony upon her return - for the crumbling walls of the old mansion guard dark secrets, tragic memories. the lover-to-be who waits for her now at Ashley Court. Devastated, she believes, that the mysterious stranger is her destiny. Since childhood the two have communicated through thought patterns, though Bryony has no idea of his identity. And there is something odd about her father's sudden death.īryony has inherited the Ashley 'Sight' and so has one of the Ashleys. Still, her father's final, dire warning about a terrible family curse haunts her days and her dreams. Her family's estate with its load of debt is no longer her worry.
After the tragic death of her father, Bryony returns from abroad to find that his estate is to become the responsibility of her cousin Emory. Bryony Ashley knows that Ashley Court, the grand estate, is both hell and paradise - once elegant and beautiful, yet shrouded in shadow.
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